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Author Guidelines

Manuscripts that are too descriptive or containing reports of work which appears to contravene accepted principles of conservation or ethical standards may be rejected without external review.

Manuscripts should be written in US English.

Articles accepted for publication are usually published in order of submission. Exceptions are made for papers of particular scientific significance, and for manuscripts which fully comply with editorial requirements given in the instruction for authors and require only minor changes.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

All the bitmaps are presented in the JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, PSD, PDF, or other raster formats in minimum resolution of 300 dpi for actual size. All vector or vector-bimap illustrations are presented in the formats of Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf), Encapsulated PostScript (.eps), PostScript (.ps), CorelDRAW (.cdr, .cmx), or other.

Author text or tag placed over the bitmap image (for example, pictures or maps) can be easily removed from the picture (for example, made on a separate layer in Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc.).

Each illustration containing the author's text is accompanied by a separate text file (doc, rtf, txt, wp and other), containing this text.

Internet links are providedas acompleteURL.

Texttypeddouble-spaced,fontTimes New Roman,12pt;tohighlightaccentsusedbold anditalic,rather thanunderlining(exceptinternetlinks). The mainparts of the article arranged in the followingorder:

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

a) The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.b) With Microsoft Office documents and PDFs, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file.

The authors agree that the mismatch of their article to any of the above requirements may result in the rejection of article on formal grounds, i.e. without consideration of the merits.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work three years after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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